Making My Character Board.

When I began making my Character Board, I took into consideration what kinds of images I would want to use. I ended up choosing a few of the more detailed and, therefore, effective images that I had created during the research and development part of my work. I chose a sitting pose to be the main part of my character board, because I would be able to make this image bigger due to her sitting down, and then in turn would allow viewers to see more of her body and face.

I began to recreate this image digitally, using Adobe Illustrator, through the means of a master class introducing the technique of using the pen/line tool. I think this was a very effective way of lining this piece of artwork, because I had complete control in what the lines were doing and in what direction they were doing it, which also made the image look more professional. 

I continued using this process until I had a 
completely lined image, to which I could add
 colour, using the program Paint Too Sai. I have most confidence lining and colouring my artwork using that particular program, but I gave Illustrator a shot as I'd heard many good things about it. I added colour using the simple paint tool, then highlighted shiny areas and created shadows in more dull ones, this made the character look a lot more 3 dimensional and gave her a bit more personality such as mischievousness and loyalty. I also noticed that adding a singular line underneath her, made her look as though she was sitting on an actual object which looked very effective on the finished character board.


I then did the same technique to the other images that I put onto the character images as well. I was able to edit them into digital pieces of art in order to put them onto the character board. I chose images that I had drawn from scratch which

 looked best for the character board.




One of these images was the character "emotions," image. This image fits it's purpose well because it shows ultimate emotions from my character, showing happiness, guiltiness and sadness. I think one downside of this image was that the eyes are not exactly the same shade of blue as my main character, as they are a lot darker, however I still think the image serves it's purpose well.

I also wanted to include images that show the size, structure and sides of my character. I managed to make this model scale which showed all sides and aspects of my character which looked really effective in my opinion. One thing that I would have changed is the colour of the last figure which, for some reason, has become a lot lighter than the rest of the figures. I also noticed that the middle figures' face is a lot bigger than the rest of the figures which makes them look slightly distorted.
However, over all I'm very pleased with how my images turned out and think that the colours and designs were successful and work with the number of backgrounds that i tried them out with. There are some aspects that I feel bring it down and if I had the time I would change them, but overall I am very pleased with how they've turned out.